Today is: Yom Shaynee, Sivan 11, 5771 • 6 13, 2011
• 5 MORE DAYS TO SHABBAT
• *Topics in the news
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In basketball, the Dallas Mavericks defeat the Miami Heat to win their first NBA championship (Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki pictured).
In the Turkish general election, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected for a third term and the AK Party retains its majority in parliament.
In sports car racing, Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Senior al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is killed by Somali soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 closes in Los Angeles.
Indian painter M. F. Husain dies in London at the age of 95.
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• *Today in Judaism
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-Today in Jewish History
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• Passing of "Minchat Yitzchak" (1989)
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Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss, known as the Minchat Yitzchak (the name of the responsa he authored), was born in Galicia in 1902. He headed of the court of Jewish law, the Beit Din, in Grosswardein, Romania before WWII, and after miraculously surviving the war he assumed the same position in Manchester, England.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust he worked diligently on aiding the many women whose husbands disappeared, and presumably perished, during the war; finding halachic "loopholes" which allowed them to remarry according to Jewish law.
He authored a nine-volume set of responsa. In this widely-used work, he addresses many modern-day halachic issues which resulted from the technological explosion, as well as many medical ethics issues.
In 1979, he assumed the position of Av Beit Din (Head of Court) in the Edah Hachareidit, one of the most prominent rabbinical bodies in Israel. He served in this capacity for the last seventeen years of his life.
He passed away on the 11th of Sivan. An estimated 30,000 people attended his funeral.
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• -Daily Quote
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And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to make the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant...
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days G-d made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed
- Exodus 31:16-17
-Daily Study
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Shlach, 2nd Portion Numbers 13:21-14:7 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 60 - 65
Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 3
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Seven
• 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Twenty, Ishut Chapter Twenty One, Ishut Chapter Twenty Two
-Hayom Yom:
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• “Today’s Day”
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From my father's talks: "The avoda of serving G-d according to Chassidus comprises all kinds of levels... The level of "corpse" does not need much elaboration; but, thank G-d, there is also "revival of the dead" in spiritual avoda. A corpse is cold; there is nothing as frigid as natural intellect, human intellect. When one's natural intelligence comprehends a G-dly concept, and the emotions latent in intellect are enthused and moved by the pleasure-within-intellect - that is true revival of the dead.
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• Today’s Mitzvah
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Positive Commandment 212
Reproduction
"Be fruitful and multiply"—Genesis 1:28.
We are commanded to reproduce in order to perpetuate the human species. For this reason, a groom on the night of his wedding is exempt from the biblical obligation to recite the Shema, for his mind is presumably preoccupied with the impending mitzvah that he will perform.
This mitzvah is only mandatory for males.
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• -THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
•
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Shaynee ............Second day
CREATION DAY THE HEAVENS EARTH, AND WATERS
ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם.
6 And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
ז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָרָקִיעַ, וַיַּבְדֵּל בֵּין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לָרָקִיעַ, וּבֵין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעַל לָרָקִיעַ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
ח וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָרָקִיעַ, שָׁמָיִם; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שֵׁנִי. {פ} 8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. {P}
• 5 MORE DAYS TO SHABBAT
• *Topics in the news
•
In basketball, the Dallas Mavericks defeat the Miami Heat to win their first NBA championship (Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki pictured).
In the Turkish general election, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected for a third term and the AK Party retains its majority in parliament.
In sports car racing, Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Senior al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is killed by Somali soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 closes in Los Angeles.
Indian painter M. F. Husain dies in London at the age of 95.
•
• *Today in Judaism
•
-Today in Jewish History
•
• Passing of "Minchat Yitzchak" (1989)
•
Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss, known as the Minchat Yitzchak (the name of the responsa he authored), was born in Galicia in 1902. He headed of the court of Jewish law, the Beit Din, in Grosswardein, Romania before WWII, and after miraculously surviving the war he assumed the same position in Manchester, England.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust he worked diligently on aiding the many women whose husbands disappeared, and presumably perished, during the war; finding halachic "loopholes" which allowed them to remarry according to Jewish law.
He authored a nine-volume set of responsa. In this widely-used work, he addresses many modern-day halachic issues which resulted from the technological explosion, as well as many medical ethics issues.
In 1979, he assumed the position of Av Beit Din (Head of Court) in the Edah Hachareidit, one of the most prominent rabbinical bodies in Israel. He served in this capacity for the last seventeen years of his life.
He passed away on the 11th of Sivan. An estimated 30,000 people attended his funeral.
•
• -Daily Quote
•
And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to make the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant...
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days G-d made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed
- Exodus 31:16-17
-Daily Study
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Shlach, 2nd Portion Numbers 13:21-14:7 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 60 - 65
Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 3
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Seven
• 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Twenty, Ishut Chapter Twenty One, Ishut Chapter Twenty Two
-Hayom Yom:
•
• “Today’s Day”
•
From my father's talks: "The avoda of serving G-d according to Chassidus comprises all kinds of levels... The level of "corpse" does not need much elaboration; but, thank G-d, there is also "revival of the dead" in spiritual avoda. A corpse is cold; there is nothing as frigid as natural intellect, human intellect. When one's natural intelligence comprehends a G-dly concept, and the emotions latent in intellect are enthused and moved by the pleasure-within-intellect - that is true revival of the dead.
•
• Today’s Mitzvah
•
Positive Commandment 212
Reproduction
"Be fruitful and multiply"—Genesis 1:28.
We are commanded to reproduce in order to perpetuate the human species. For this reason, a groom on the night of his wedding is exempt from the biblical obligation to recite the Shema, for his mind is presumably preoccupied with the impending mitzvah that he will perform.
This mitzvah is only mandatory for males.
•
• -THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
•
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Shaynee ............Second day
CREATION DAY THE HEAVENS EARTH, AND WATERS
ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם.
6 And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
ז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָרָקִיעַ, וַיַּבְדֵּל בֵּין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לָרָקִיעַ, וּבֵין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעַל לָרָקִיעַ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
ח וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָרָקִיעַ, שָׁמָיִם; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שֵׁנִי. {פ} 8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. {P}
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